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    The Suicide Squad - Dead or Alive
    The Suicide Squad - Dead or Alive
    The Suicide Squad - Dead or Alive
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    The Suicide Squad - Dead or Alive

    By Emile Tepperman

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    ON OCTOBER 1, John Stafford, mayor of Hill City, was shot and instantly killed by a dope—crazed assassin named Dill. The next in line for the mayoral job was Lawrence Hall, president of the City Council. But, for some unaccountable reason, Hall refused the honor. In order to avoid becoming mayor, he resigned from the City Council and left at once for Florida, taking his wife and son with him. It now became the duty of Judge Samuel Rotherwell, chief justice of the Superior Court, to appoint someone to fill the unexpired term of the mayoralty until the next election. There were a number of substantial business men and civic leaders in Hill City whom Justice Rotherwell might have chosen. But to the amazement and consternation of everyone, he named—Hugo Bledd. That was how the Era of Terror came to Hill City...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEndymion Press
    Release dateSep 29, 2016
    ISBN9781531299101
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      The Suicide Squad - Dead or Alive - Emile Tepperman

      THE SUICIDE SQUAD - DEAD OR ALIVE

      Emile Tepperman

      ENDYMION PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Emile Tepperman

      Published by Endymion Press

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      ISBN: 9781531299101

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1. THE CITY OF TERROR

      2. OPEN UP—FOR THE SUICIDE SQUAD!

      3. DEAD OR ALIVE

      4. BLUE COATS FOR G-MEN

      5. REMAIN AT EASE!

      6. CITIZENS, ARISE!

      7. THE BATTLE OF SUICIDE SQUARE

      1. THE CITY OF TERROR

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      ON OCTOBER 1, JOHN STAFFORD, mayor of Hill City, was shot and instantly killed by a dope—crazed assassin named Dill.

      The next in line for the mayoral job was Lawrence Hall, president of the City Council. But, for some unaccountable reason, Hall refused the honor. In order to avoid becoming mayor, he resigned from the City Council and left at once for Florida, taking his wife and son with him.

      It now became the duty of Judge Samuel Rotherwell, chief justice of the Superior Court, to appoint someone to fill the unexpired term of the mayoralty until the next election. There were a number of substantial business men and civic leaders in Hill City whom Justice Rotherwell might have chosen. But to the amazement and consternation of everyone, he named—Hugo Bledd.

      That was how the Era of Terror came to Hill City.

      Hugo Bledd owned the Hill City Race Track. He was a disbarred lawyer who had dipped his fingers in almost every form of shady activity. He had been disbarred for conspiracy to help a notorious racketeer client defraud the government of two million dollars in income taxes. And when his racketeer client went to jail, Bledd had continued to manage the vast sub rosa enterprises of the Big Shot. Disbarment meant nothing to him, as long as he was able to keep out of jail... And this was the man whom Justice Rotherwell appointed to be mayor of Hill City!

      Naturally, there was a good deal of criticism. The editor of the morning Journal announced that he would ask the Governor to look into it. But that night, the editor of the Journal was accosted by a group of thugs, who beat him with a lead pipe and left him unconscious in the street. The same night, there where a dozen other assaults upon citizens who might have been expected to oppose the appointment.

      Hugo Bledd was sworn in the next day. He demanded the immediate resignation of the police commissioner, as well as of all the other commissioners who had been appointed by the preceding mayor.

      He also discharged a great number of the older policemen and detectives, claiming that the police department needed revamping.

      Then there began an influx of strange and ugly looking men into Hill City. From all parts of the country they came—men with tight lips and killers’ eyes, men with guns bulging under their armpits, men who had done time in all the major prisons. Before the city awoke to its peril, it was in the grip of as vicious a mob of storm troopers as had ever taken possession of a European land.

      One of these new arrivals, a man named Rory Fenn, was appointed police commissioner. Fenn immediately swore in a hundred of the newly-arrived thugs as policemen and detectives, raising some of them to captains’ and inspectors rank over the heads of the old-timers on the force.

      The next day, at the meeting of the City Council, a contingent of these uniformed thugs was present in the meeting room. Significantly also, seven of the thirty-nine councilmen were absent. Two of the seven were dead. The other five were in the hospital, so badly injured that they would not be able to leave their beds for weeks.

      Little wonder, then, that those councilmen present quickly voted to pass all the measures submitted by Mayor Hugo Bledd. A tax was imposed on all business transactions in the city, as well as on all pay checks. The money derived

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